LED lighting April 23, 2015
Posted by Maury Markowitz in power grid.Tags: energy efficiency, power grid
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Buy some, trust me.
I thought I’d put up a little post about my latest power bill.
Now that you’re all hanging on the edge of your seat…
EV battery prices falling rapidly April 5, 2015
Posted by Maury Markowitz in electric cars.Tags: electric cars
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Price declines in large battery packs are faster than expected.
A recent paper in Nature Climate Change attempts to track the real costs of electric car batteries, and find they are already well below the most wild-eyed predictions for 2020 made only a few years ago. If the trends continue, batteries will fall below a critical threshold around 2020, meaning that electric car lifetime costs will be lower than gasoline cars, in spite of higher up-front costs.
Electric cars and carbon intensity April 1, 2015
Posted by Maury Markowitz in electric cars.Tags: electric cars
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You evil car you! You’re so… so… oh gawd I want one.
As the regular readers of Energy Matters -the world’s most beautiful supermodels- are no doubt aware, I have a thing about electric vehicles. So when a story on the topic came up on CBC Radio One the other day my ears perked up. And when it turned out the story in question starts right here in Toronto, well, I’m off to the races!
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